Art

At 91, Bridget Riley continues to create with the same drive that first led her to create hypnotizing artwork back in the 1960s. As one of the pioneers of the Op Art movement, the British artist has continually reshaped our perception of the world through paintings, drawings and installations over the course of the past 60 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, Riley can add another first in her career as she just unveiled a ceiling painting at the British School at Rome.Entitled Verve, the artwork is a somewhat departure from her usual work, which oscillates between the rhythmic and the geometric. But by working with the institution's architecture, Riley achieves a similar harmony through a series of orderly beams of color, from a dominant sky blue and lilac, to smaller complementary co...

Puglia doesn't quite get the hype as other parts of Italy, such as Rome, the Amalfi Coast and of course, Venice. But the region is home to an array of historical monuments and 540 miles of some of the most beautiful beaches found anywhere across the country. Monopoli, a city just south of the Puglian capital of Bari, may be the hub of unexpected tourism due to a new statue of a voluptuous mermaid.Created by students from the local Luigi Rosso art school, the mermaid has drawn criticism for having rather provocative features. “It looks like a mermaid with two silicone breasts and, above all, a huge arse never seen before on a mermaid. At least not any I know," said Bari-based actor, Tiziana Schiavarelli, via Facebook.The mayor of Monopoli asked the students to create the sculpture as part o...

Having occupied a number of Japan's historic locations in the past such as Fukuyama Castle and Kairakuen Garden, teamLab now opens a solo exhibition at Shoshazan Engyoji Temple in Himeji City, Hyogo. The show looks to challenge our notion of existence, playing with forms of light and radiance that do not physically exist, but are perceptible by the viewer."When we enter teamLab’s artwork space, we come face to face with our own existence that is continuous with the space. The world does not exist separately, independent from us - rather it is continuous with us, together with us, and within us. The spheres of light created by teamLab inside Engyoji Temple, a venue regarded as a sacred location for the arts, invites viewers to reconsider the universal question of life and existence," writes...

Sometimes amusing, other-times perplexing, the work of Iranian-American artist Ashkon Haidari is always mystery — both for the artist and the viewer. Born and based in Chicago, Haidari primarily works across drawings, etchings and oil paintings as a way to journal his observations. This Saturday, May 6, the artist will unveil his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles entitled New Work, New Worlds.Housed at Boyle Heights social club asi asi, the show will comprise of four large-scale paintings and a series of original drawings from the self-taught artist. “Each of my works are always evolving. Every detail I add into a painting is a symbolic representation of something that happened to me that day - someone I saw, or a memory that struck my mind. These are Easter eggs for the viewer to find,...

A list of editors, journalists, artists and illustrators have compiled an open letter petitioning against the use of AI generated artwork. The initiative is led by artist and author, Molly Crabapple, along with a number of prominent figures within the media world, including Vox writer Aja Romano, MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes, Popular Front journalist Jake Hanrahan and 972 others, at the time of writing. In collaboration with the Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting, the letter opens by drawing a symbiotic connection between writers and artists, one that "still speaks to something not just intimately connected to the news, but intrinsically human about story itself." With the rapid development (and ouput) of AI tools, such as Midjourney and DALL·E 2, the letter goes on to argue that t...

Hypeart Project (#HAP) is a new social series that spotlights prompt-specific work from a range of established and emerging artists. Each month, we announce unique art-focused prompts that serve as both challenges and opportunities for our brilliant creative community to tap into their inner frequency. Examples includeClick here to view full gallery at Hypebeast

Austin Lee has unveiled a new solo exhibition with Pace Prints in New York. The partnership comes after five years in which the artist collaborated with the studio further pushing his exploration into the fusion of analog and digital techniques. Good Impressions, as the show has been dubbed, will present a number of editions and multiples made using both traditional and digital methods, spanning the intimate to the monumental. In particular, Lee has readapted his painting On the Way, originally conceived using virtual reality, into a sculptural multiple of 25. The artwork humorously depicts the emotional crisis that often strikes when on a family road trip. Reminiscent of early Nickelodeon animations, the piece seeks to make "visible what was once hidden in the original painting and allow ...

Fresh off another exhibition with NANZUKA, American artist Todd James brings his colorful military-inspired artwork to Over the Influence (OTI) in Paris. LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES comprises of five paintings that present a new emerging style, namely, vividly saturated figures that blend with one another and are accentuated by stippling shading that adds a pop to James' two-dimensional figures. Emblematic of his career, the artist continues to depict woman as a central subject, along with various themes tied to warfare, such as military uniforms and weaponry. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Over the Influence (@oti.official)For the first time, the exhibition will also debut James' pen and ink on paper studies that are as much a celebration of 1970s artists, from R. Crumb to Peter S...

Night Gallery is presenting new work from French artist Claire Tabouret at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Miami. Entitled Au Bois d’Amour, the show is mapped out across two galleries on the museum's ground floor and will present Tabouret's latest "Fluff" paintings, along with a series of monoprints and a unique tapestry made in collaboration with acclaimed rug maker, Odabashian.Tabouret has been a prolific force within the world of fine art over the past eight years, from solo exhibitions with Almine Rech and Perrotin, as well as a recent inclusion at the 2022 Venice Biennale. While she is chiefly known for portraiture and group scenes of pensive children, Tabouret returns to landscape through thick applications of acrylic paint on plush canvases, resulting in rich textural pie...

The Coalition for the Homeless' Artist Plate Project has become a platform for established and emerging creatives to showcase their work, while providing meals for low-income New Yorkers. In conjunction with the upcoming Frieze New York, the 2023 Artist Plate Project will boast a remarkable list of global creatives, including Alice Neel and Amoako Boafo, Hank Willis Thomas and Huma Bhabha to Philip Guston and the late Virgil Abloh, amongst many.Co-founded and curated by Michelle Hellman, the organization has worked with nearly 100 artists and has raised over $4.5m USD since 2020. Funds from the sale of each plate benefit New York organizations by providing emergency food, clothing, eviction prevention, as well as job training and programs for youth to 3,500 homeless and at-risk men, women ...